Nico Schuck
@nicoschuck.bsky.social
Algorithms of the Mind. Cognitive Neuroscience Prof at Uni Hamburg.
http://schucklab.gitlab.io/
http://schucklab.gitlab.io/
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www.biorxiv.org
How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
CCN is wonderful, highly recommended!
🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open!
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
CCN is wonderful, highly recommended!
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🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open!
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
January 28, 2026 at 4:16 PM
🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open!
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
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Voxelwise Encoding Models (VEMs) are a great framework for modeling fMRI data, but it can be difficult to implement. We've made VEM accessible by providing software, tutorials and reviews that guide its use an implementation. Get it here:
gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12...
#neuroscience, #neuroimaging
gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12...
#neuroscience, #neuroimaging
December 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Voxelwise Encoding Models (VEMs) are a great framework for modeling fMRI data, but it can be difficult to implement. We've made VEM accessible by providing software, tutorials and reviews that guide its use an implementation. Get it here:
gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12...
#neuroscience, #neuroimaging
gallantlab.org/blog/2025-12...
#neuroscience, #neuroimaging
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Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
January 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
How do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
2026.ccneuro.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
2026.ccneuro.org
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Very happy to see this out now in Psychology of Sport & Exercise 🤓
If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out!
w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out!
w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: a primer on empirical and computational approaches
Sports and exercise require constant on-the-fly decision-making from professional athletes and recreational exercisers alike. In the final minutes of …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Very happy to see this out now in Psychology of Sport & Exercise 🤓
If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out!
w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If you’re interested in how the explore–exploit framework helps us study decision-making in sports and exercise, check it out!
w/ @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @wanjawolff.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👏 Congratulations to @uni-hamburg.de for being rated Germanys most sustainable university. Glad to see that UHH has been committed to lead by example in this important area over the past years.
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/...
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/...
The University of Hamburg Still Germany’s Most Sustainable University
www.uni-hamburg.de
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
👏 Congratulations to @uni-hamburg.de for being rated Germanys most sustainable university. Glad to see that UHH has been committed to lead by example in this important area over the past years.
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/...
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/newsroom/...
One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.
The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
One week left to apply to the Max Planck School of Cognition! I have worked with several grad students from the programme and it's an impressive group of people. Deadline Dec 1st.
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🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
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Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!
#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F
The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th
@cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay
Workshops, Socials & Special Events - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...
www.cogneurosociety.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Registration is open. Please spread the word. The preliminary schedule will be up on the site later this month, and we've got an amazing line up!
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Our paper on CSF, BOLD, pupil, and physiological measures in sleep deprivation and recovery sleep is finally out! 🎉 Congrats Zinong! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience
Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our paper on CSF, BOLD, pupil, and physiological measures in sleep deprivation and recovery sleep is finally out! 🎉 Congrats Zinong! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
great job by @luiantaverra.bsky.social and @fabianrenz.bsky.social writing up this overview of methods and issues in measuring brain plasticity non-invasively in humans!
📘🧠💥@fabianrenz.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social & I thought about methods to measure brain plasticity and wrote an overview of exciting new methods and developments!
Read our chapter, out now in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Read our chapter, out now in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
great job by @luiantaverra.bsky.social and @fabianrenz.bsky.social writing up this overview of methods and issues in measuring brain plasticity non-invasively in humans!
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I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
Interactive Cognition Lab | USC
Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.
rouhanilab.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
great idea! hope this will spawn some insights and analysis innovations and wish I had the time to take part.
but a big bottleneck for the lack of generalizability is still that we are using the wrong localizer tasks. hard to know in MEG whether any signal is non-sensory with such localizers.
but a big bottleneck for the lack of generalizability is still that we are using the wrong localizer tasks. hard to know in MEG whether any signal is non-sensory with such localizers.
How well do classifiers trained on visual activity actually transfer to non-visual reactivation?
#Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!
#Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!
IMAGINE-decoding-challenge
Predict which words participants were hearing, based upon brain activity recordings of visually seeing these items?
www.kaggle.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
great idea! hope this will spawn some insights and analysis innovations and wish I had the time to take part.
but a big bottleneck for the lack of generalizability is still that we are using the wrong localizer tasks. hard to know in MEG whether any signal is non-sensory with such localizers.
but a big bottleneck for the lack of generalizability is still that we are using the wrong localizer tasks. hard to know in MEG whether any signal is non-sensory with such localizers.
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Scientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress.
We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
October 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Scientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress.
We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
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🚨Job Alert🚨
2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften
- Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden
Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏
👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften
- Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden
Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏
👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🚨Job Alert🚨
2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften
- Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden
Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏
👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
2 unbefristete Stellen (je 75%, E13) bei uns am Institut für Bewegungswissenschaften
- Fokus: Insb. Sozialwissenschaften des Sports/Sportsoziologie & qualitative Methoden
Über Verbreitung freue ich mich sehr, Rückfragen gern per DM an mich 🙏
👉 www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Here is a chance for international undergraduates to come to Hamburg and work with the amazing @elbersgerd.bsky.social
If you're an undergrad student in North America, UK or Ireland, consider coming to Hamburg for a cool DAAD internship on prediction error effects on memory! Hosted by yours truly, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & @stresscognition.bsky.social. 📨 until Nov 30: Hamburg_BI_0606 www.daad.de/rise/rise-germany
October 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Here is a chance for international undergraduates to come to Hamburg and work with the amazing @elbersgerd.bsky.social
Check out Hashim’s intriguing studies that fail to find correlations between internalizing symptoms and adaptive learning rates when learning under uncertainty.
Excited to announce that this is now out in eLife as a reviewed preprint 🚀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Check out Hashim’s intriguing studies that fail to find correlations between internalizing symptoms and adaptive learning rates when learning under uncertainty.
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Excited to announce that this is now out in eLife as a reviewed preprint 🚀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Excited to announce that this is now out in eLife as a reviewed preprint 🚀
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Huge thanks to the eLife editors, reviewers and our fantastic collaborators: Katharina Wille, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, Matt Nassar, Radoslaw Cichy, Peter Dayan and @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social
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The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online!
Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany
More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.
pug2026.org
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany
More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.
pug2026.org
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
PUG2026 – PUG 2026: June 4–6, 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
pug2026.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online!
Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany
More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.
pug2026.org
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany
More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.
pug2026.org
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @igor-dgps.bsky.social
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📰 Mit Anne Paulsen von @spiegel.de habe ich über unser @dhprlab.bsky.social, unsere verschiedenen Messmethoden & insbesondere unsere aktuelle #Forschung zu #Langeweile im #Sport gesprochen.
Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️
www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...
Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️
www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...
(S+) Radeln und Joggen finden Sie öde? Das hilft gegen Langeweile beim Sport
Kilometersammeln zu Fuß oder per Rad, Hantelwuchten, Kachelzählen beim Schwimmen – das kann zäh und öde sein. Sportpsychologe Wanja Wolff sagt dagegen: Langeweile kann zum Motivationsboost für Hobbysp...
www.spiegel.de
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
📰 Mit Anne Paulsen von @spiegel.de habe ich über unser @dhprlab.bsky.social, unsere verschiedenen Messmethoden & insbesondere unsere aktuelle #Forschung zu #Langeweile im #Sport gesprochen.
Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️
www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...
Vielleicht sind ja ein paar hilfreiche Tipps dabei 😁 ⬇️
www.spiegel.de/fitness/fitn...
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Ein Hinweis für Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger: Am Sonntag ist #Zukunftsentscheid. Die Universität Hamburg weist darauf hin, dass die Erhitzung der Erde schon bis 2050 drei Grad über der vorindustriellen Zeit landen könnte. Ein heute fünfjähriges Kind wird dann 30 Jahre alt.
October 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ein Hinweis für Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger: Am Sonntag ist #Zukunftsentscheid. Die Universität Hamburg weist darauf hin, dass die Erhitzung der Erde schon bis 2050 drei Grad über der vorindustriellen Zeit landen könnte. Ein heute fünfjähriges Kind wird dann 30 Jahre alt.
I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?